Theme: AI and EAL
Convenor/s: East Midlands RIG
Overview of the meeting
Join us for an essential exploration of AI for EAL practitioners and students. We’ll get hands on and explore and expand on the tools, strategies and activities that can support every student to create inclusive, personal and adaptive learning experiences that are within easy reach of every educator.
The session is drawn from the collective experience of how AI can impact learning for EAL students, firmly based on effective good practice drawn from classroom experiences across the globe and their positive pedagogical and inclusive impact in the time AI has been with us.
The session aims to reduce the fear and mystery around AI, provide teachers with safe and effective strategies to embrace EAL and multilingual learners and deliver a range of practical examples, tools and resources to help educators get up and running with the technology that is impacting all our lives.
Together, we’ll explore the challenges, risks, opportunities, and benefits that AI brings to the classroom. By the end of the session, you’ll have a comprehensive understanding of AI’s role in teaching and learning, its ethical considerations, and practical strategies to leverage AI for the success of EAL students.
In addition, we will explore exam access arrangements solutions utilising technology to replace human readers and scribes, levelling the playing field for our EAL learners.
Speaker bio
Danielle McKernan is a Teaching & Learning specialist with Texthelp – the world’s largest accessibility technology company. She strives to create learning environments where everyone understands and is understood by removing barriers to learning, making it equitable, accessible and personal, across reading, writing and maths.
With over two decades of classroom and leadership experience in the 11-18 educational sector, and a Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching, Danielle believes in a pedagogy-first approach, informed by evidence and works with schools and school leaders to embed the purposeful use of technology to create inclusive learning environments, empowering all learners to succeed. In addition, Danielle is the regional leader of the Northern Ireland Google Educator Group, a Google Certified Trainer and Coach and is committed to connecting learning communities, and building educators’ capacity to drive transformative educational practices.